Metro: Last Light refuses to let you go (review)

Last Light's post-apocalyptic Moscow is a terrifying experience filled with mutants, enemy soldiers, and ghosts. It's also one of the best looking games out there for the PC.

GamesBeat weekly roundup: GLaDOS in Pacific Rim, more Black Ops II zombies, and Portal on a calculator

If you follow VentureBeat but don’t regularly check our GamesBeat site, here’s a list of the best video game stories we ran over the last seven days that you may have missed.

THQ giving away Metro 2033 to promote upcoming Metro: Last Light

With Metro: Last Light due in March, THQ is going the "here's a free game" marketing route.

Metro Last Light fights shooter fatigue with deeper single player (hands-on preview)

Metro Last Light, the upcoming sequel to shooter game Metro 2033, is a creepy story-driven amalgam of several  different game types. That might make it fresh enough to give it considerable mass market appeal when it debuts in 2013. At …

THQ releases Metro Last Light cinematic story video

Metro Last Light, the sequel to the first-person shooter game Metro 2033, is coming out in 2013. Today, THQ released the first video trailer showing the story behind Last Light, and it’s quite well done.

In the trailer, an old …

Lone Survivor delivers story better than big-name games (review)

Even with its "simplistic" aesthetic and presentation, Lone Survivor manages to surpass many high-profile games by way of its narrative strengths. Drawing clear influence from Silent Hill, Lone Survivor successfully builds upon the psychological thriller.

Can we panic now? — Core gaming has a problem

THQ layoffs, Sega cancellations, and Sony studio closures caused last week to be one of the worst in memory for the gaming industry. Compare that to mobile darling OMGPOP which was sold for $210 million based on the strength of one game. It seems like one side of the market is on its way down, while the other side has nothing but growth ahead of it, but that isn't necessarily the case.